Nova Rock Festival

The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is an Austrian rock festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders. It is organized by Nova Music Entertainment, a cooperation between Musicnet, FKP Scorpio and several former employees/bookers of Wiesen, who left Wiesen in 2004. The festival was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2005 lineup Die Ärzte, Audioslave, Bad Acid Trip, Beatsteaks, BoySetsFire, Core, Green Day, In Extremo, La Vela Puerca, Mando Diao, Marilyn Manson, Moneybrother, Nightwish, The Prodigy, Soulfly, System of a Down, Weezer, Wir sind Helden 2006 lineup The 2006 Nova Rock festival was held from 15 to 17 June (Thursday to Saturday). It was the first year that the festival had two large stages (blue and red). The first bands announced on the Nova Rock homepage were: Guns N' Roses, Placebo, Metallica, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Massive Attack, Motörhead, Madsen, Billy Talent, Hard-Fi, Guadalajara, Seeed, Bodyrockers, She Male Trouble, Sportfreunde Stiller, Lagwagon, Subway to Sally and Julia. Originally Korn were announced to play the festival, but had to cancel it, as well as the "Nova Rock Encore", a concert in Vienna which they were expected to play with Deftones, Soulfly and Devildriver. 2007 lineup Nova Rock Festival 2007 took place from 15 to 17 June with the following lineup: Headliners: Billy Talent, The Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Pearl Jam, Slayer, The Killers, The festival also consisted of bands including: Linkin Park, Machine Head, In Flames, Papa Roach, Reel Big Fish, Incubus, Mando Diao, The Hives, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Children of Bodom, Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Isis, Aiden, In Extremo, Ill Niño, Within Temptation, Hayseed Dixie, The BossHoss and Chimaira. 2008 lineup Confirmed lineup: 2009 lineup Confirmed bands as of 4 April 2009: 2010 lineup Date: 11. - 13. June 2010 Confirmed bands as of 23 November 2009: 2011 lineup Date: 11. - 13. June 2011 Confirmed bands: [A]Special Late Night Attraction 2012 lineup Date: 08. - 10. June 2012 Confirmed bands: [A]Canceled due to storm. 2013 lineup Date: 14. - 16. June 2013 Confirmed bands: 2014 lineup Date: 13. - 15. June 2014 2015 lineup Date: 12. - 14. June 2015 2016 lineup Date: 10. - 12. June 2016 2017 lineup Date: 14. - 17. June 2017 2018 lineup Date: 14. - 17. June 2018 2019 lineup Date: 13. - 16. June 2019 2022 lineup Date: 09. - 12. June 2022 2022 was the first festival since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attempts were made to organize the festival in both 2020 and 2021, but were inevitably cancelled due to concerns with the virus. 2023 lineup Date: 07. - 10. June 2023 2024 lineup The Nova Rock 2024 festival took place from June 13 to 16. Headliners were Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Måneskin, and Bring Me the Horizon, though Avril Lavigne, The Sisters of Mercy, and Alice Cooper were also in the line ups. Unlike previous years, only the Blue and Red Bull Music stages were played during the last day of the festival. According to festival organizers, the four festival days attracted around 200,000 attendees. 2025 The 2025 festival is scheduled to take place from June 11 to 14, 2025. On June 13 of 2024, Slipknot, Electric Callboy, Wanda, The Warning, and Lorna Shore were announced for the 19th iteration of the festival. References External links Official website Nova Music's homepage